partcombine and stems

[Eduardo Vieira]

Hello group,

 

I have setup this song for soprano/ alto and used "partcombine". When two notes are in unison (or in intervals of seconds), what should I do to make one have a stem up and the other a stem down? Is it possible?

I know if I had started the score from the scratch I would have chords and voice layers instead, and that would avoid such problem.

Another question: Referring to the shaped notes, how could I invert the notehead of the "gis2" in the 16th and 18th measure? Shouldn't the program automatically have made them follow the same pattern of the next "gis8" in the mentioned measures?

 

Best regards,

 

Eduardo

 

P. S. I'm using version 2.6.3 in Windows Me. Encoding: UTF-8. Here is a copy of the file (which was converted from an ABC file):

 

\version "2.5.20"
\header {
 poet = "Port. James Frederick Spann, 1976"
 composer = "Denes Agay, 1970"
 crossRefNumber = "1"
 footnotes = ""
 tagline = "Lily was here 2.6.3 -- automatically converted from ABC"
 title = "Uma Bênção Antiga"
}
voiceB =  {
\autoBeamOff
\time 4/4 \key d \major
\aikenHeads
 \partial 4
d'8    e'8        fis'2    b'4.    a'8   
    fis'4    fis'2    d'8    e'8        fis'4    fis'4    b'8   
a'8    d'8    e'8          fis'2. ~    fis'8    fis'8       
b'4    cis''4    d''4.    cis''8        b'4    a'4    fis'4.    fis'8   
    b'4    cis''4    d''8    e''8    d''8    cis''8          b'4 
  a'4    fis'4.    fis'8        e'4.    e'8    a'4.    g'8       
fis'4    e'4    d'4    e'4        cis'2.    g'4          fis'2.  
 b'4        d''2    b'4    g'4        cis''4    a'4    fis'4   
a'8    cis''8        b'2.    b'8    b'8          b'2    b'8   
b'8    b'8    b'8        dis''4    b'2    b'8    b'8        b'2  
 b'8    b'8    cis''8    b'8        gis'8.    b'16    b'8    b'4.   ~   
b'8    b'8        fis'2    fis'2        fis'2.    \bar "|."  
}
voiceC =  {
\autoBeamOff
\time 4/4 \key d \major
\aikenHeads
 \partial 4
b8    cis'8        d'2    d'4.    cis'8   
    d'4    d'2    b8    cis'8        d'4    d'4    d'8    d'8   
d'8    d'8          cis'2. ~    cis'8   fis'8
d'4   e'4    g'4.    e'8        d'4    e'4    d'4.    d'8        d'4   
e'4    g'8    g'8    g'8    e'8          d'4    e'4    d'4.    b8   
    b4.    b8    cis'4.    cis'8        d'4    cis'4    b4    b4 
      ais2.    e'4          cis'2.    fis'4        b'2   
g'4    d'4        a'4    fis'4    cis'4    fis'8    a'8       
fis'2.    fis'8    fis'8          gis'2    gis'8    gis'8    gis'8   
gis'8        fis'4    fis'2    fis'8    fis'8        gis'2   
gis'8    gis'8    gis'8    gis'8        gis'8.    fis'16    fis'8   
fis'4.   ~    fis'8    fis'8       fis'2    e'2       d'2. 
\bar "|."  
}

 

\score{
 \partcombine
{ \voiceB }
{ \voiceC }
            
 \layout {
 \context {
   \Voice
   printPartCombineTexts = ##f
  }
 indent = 0
 
}
\midi { \tempo 4 = 112 }
}